By: Alan Hill When I Learnt About Love. Sunday, my son and I, cut the hedge. Just as my father once showed me how in those afternoons of...

By: Sofia Sears For Christine Blasey-Ford, in 2019 1. Christine, tenderness seethes the same way a car will rut a dog’s flesh. In the...

By: Liz Wager It knows what sedulousness means, as well as sense and sound; it knows the subtleties between taciturn and silent, satisfy...

By: Bosch Jones Say it & Repeat her hard hand took my head she held high by my hair I think now you know you do block some of this out I...

By: Lydia Trethewey alive those lost moments smell like an airport carpark kerosene patina, painted-over arrows not quite underground...

By: Russell Willis Not Mine To Be tempted to trespass on another’s soul to take their time as mine to take their “mine” to be a “me” that...

By: t.p. Luce En Passant (‘Deus Vult’) later that day it occurred to me that perhaps after the Vikings came to Lindisfarne to set things...

By: James Grabill To wash our hands of the medieval apple, to suddenly throw on the brake lights red as lips of apocalyptic religion,...

By: Kelsey A. Solomon I once knew a sandwich artist with poems hidden like lettuce in his snaggletooth, where verses fermented blueberry...

By: M. Shayne Bell Even in this cheap hotel— you voices. No, for the fourth time today, I will not jump off a cliff despite your threats;...

By: Charlene Moskal Pressed Glass I found me in an empty glass its sides pressed like mine, cut with patterns, sharp but not too sharp,...

By: Jessicca Daigle Martin 13th Century Monasticism: An Assay — from Dialogue of Miracles, vol II, by Caesarious of Heisterbach A woman...

By: Lara Merlin Skin Deep I know you only as surface, what touches me back when I touch you. You like the sound of that, the play of your...

By: Amanda Schroeder The Chicken I am out of luck. Out of it. Out on the street. I am out of my mind and I’m out on the street in the...

By: Ron Louie Her measured cadence,  slow,  articulate, and taut-lipped, swept all of us forward with meticulous craft. Demarking...

By: Jenny Keto Mother: Days After Nights After Lost in a Hole Scathed, unscathed—scathed somber, she and death: so delicate do crucify....

By: Jeff Showalter When Dad would take my brother & me swimming at the secret pool during summer dusk when the low country summer breaks,...

By: Josh Feit The critics panned the book you recommended. It’s a book about a city, told through the story of the famous musician making...

By: Jennifer Thal A Service in the Shit At 9:15 AM, our small Troop lost another. We had slept through the napalm of neurosis and the...

By: Savannah Rivas Her mouth gurgles with marbles that she plucked from her belly, and I realize too late that fish sprout in place of...

By: Cassidy Black Some Body’s Wife a knife against thighmuscle, she wants me alive again. everything ends up the same way it started;...

By: Mariah K. Hamang land grab i’m choosing the worst possible poison for this job. the landlady who gossips about other tenants for 45...

By: Johnny Cate jet wreck shattered is the cathedral peace when seizuring the cylinder sets her pressure free and the scattershot dove...

By: Kyle Sweet Movement One: a glitching T.V. screen. Arms of licorice, pull the string of strings, you, my brother, the climbing...